💥Are Diagnostic Labels Holding Us Back?

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[atlas]

"People are all different." Great point. Adds perspective to nuanced situations. Communication is like working on a masterpiece of art.

[angelraburn]

I like that you pointed this out. So true that our culture is limiting by placing people in a category or model. There is no one model or thing that defines who someone is. Thank you as always Chase.

[joycallender]

Well said.
This trend fits into the conditioning of the use of vague and twisted word meanings.
I think it's also part of the 'If somebody else knows this important word, I don't have to think or study for myself' crisis.
Just because two women's ex-husbands are childish jerks does not mean they're narcissists, but those women might call them that. Other women start saying their exes are narcissists, too. That 'N' word has been used so often for those who are not narcissists that when one is dealing with a true narcissist, others believe they empathize due to their own false 'N' experience, so the needs of the one in the bad situation with a true narcissist are treated with less compassion.
The words we choose do matter. Careless speech can cause irreparable harm.

[LillianArch]

Yes! Those checklists often mean kids and adults don’t get help when all the “required” boxes aren’t checked. Schools and Programs and The Courts lacking resources use them to sift out those with supposedly the least symptoms. My daughter was once told there wasn’t a place to help her because she’d never committed a crime and was still attending school.

[sophiarevel]

Thank you Chase! Every time I listen to you, I learn something. ❤

[JuleeChristensen]

Fascinating. Humans like things tidy, with sturdy lines around the boxes. Very true, humanity in all its glory is messy.
Thank you Chase

[jasmine]

We're all just trying to make sense of this chaos we all live in.

[thisismeT]

It gives people an "easy out" they may not deserve.

[NicolaMaxwell]

Yes! I did not want to be defined by a diagnosis, I didn't want it as part of my character. I got it so I could find natural remedies and cured it! Similar remedies as what you used Chase. You are healed, you can't think it may come back. You are healed, do not let your mind ever tell you anything will come back. I don't even say my diagnosis out loud. ❤ Thank you for all you do 🧚🏼‍♀️💙

[redmoondesignbeth]

I've lived in N New Mexico 40 years. Now I'm renting from long time friend who is Navajo in an old Spanish Neighborhood in Santa Fe where it's common to pass celebrities on the street. My point is that there is such a mix of cultures and strong individuals that it almost cracks a person's "shell" to have to deal with such variety. Because this is really a small town you can't just shrug people off like in the city as in Chicago where I'm from.

[Sidera]

This isn't just in the mental health system. This is actually occurring in the medical system as well with diagnostic criteria for disease. You might be sick with something but your presentation only hits 4 of the 5 symptoms or you're symptomatic clinically but you're one serum point off in a blood test and you are told you're not sick by the doctor.

People are not looking at the full picture anymore. They are reducing people to algorithms that can be entered into a computer database and returned for easy results.

[ruthslater]

Absolutely some people need to be labeled and wear a sign how dangerous they are.

[B.b.b...]

I remember from my childhood a little platitude some families had on their wall in needlepoint or some other crafty form that said, "Children learn what they live". And now that I've been around a while, I can see that yeah, that's a thing, and you never know what someone else has lived.

[ReDuVernay]

I think the reason we've gotten into the whole "you can't diagnose them" concept so hard is that it's a reaction to so many people labeling anybody they don't like in their personal lives as "a narcissist" or "a psychopath", and it is valid to say that we should not do that, but all things are nuanced and there IS a pretty huge difference between "Yeah, my ex wife is a psychopath narcissist" and "We can see the following psychopathic behaviors in this interview with a convicted mass murderer". The internet isn't good at nuance, they want simple, easy to remember rules that are always true in all cases, which isn't really how life works.

[Anna.Mason]

A person experiences their condition/s it affects who they are but it is not who they are as a core self. Labelling a persons mental condition or PD is a heads up to others, but labelling the Behaviours or tendencies for recognition is far more beneficial, because this is how we interact with each other, and a person may experience their mental illness or PD to different degrees, under different stresses or triggers. Occasionally a person is self aware and does the work on themselves and to the standard of an idea of “Normal” or non mal adaptiveness so their condition may not be detectable …If we label the behaviour we can have an insight on any changes that may be occurring and less chance of being effected in a negative way. We can also gain greater understanding for the human experience and respond with better understanding.

[angelabell]

Thank you Chase. Im a checklister. Lol. I'll have to work on this.

[alexgill]

I’d rather know I was a zebra than think I was a weird horse.

[LinMonash]

Yes, its a placebo, and a dangerous one. We need to categorise things, people, behaviours, in order to make sense of the world. It's hard wired in, but when this lens is applied obsessively, without flex or nuance or capacity to adapt to new incoming information, these categories become prisons for the self & others.

[Now_U_Smile]

Good on you to clearly saying that. And for example in the realm of mental health, we shouldn’t say that people ARE such mental disorder but that they HAVE a mental disorder, especially if they didn’t always have it, and so it’s possible they could really well not have it anymore one day, and sustainably achieve that without needed artificial drugs, like people I know did for what most medical experts would qualify as serious mental disorders.

[wilmavantrier]

My trust in the medical profession in general is below zero, I try to go as less as possible, sometimes I think they’re getting a certificate from supermarket instead of discount 😢😢😢